Demonstrating accountability, fostering trust
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients' personalities affect admission to ICU [Full text]

	New cardiac surgeons improve their results over time [Full text]

	Reducing heroin availability decreases drug use [Full text]

	Prescribing behaviour can be improved [Full text]

	Radial artery is the preferred approach [Full text]

	More efforts needed for HIV vaccine [Full text]

Editorials

	Misconceptions about the new combination vaccine
	Helen Bedford, David Elliman
	BMJ  2004;329:411-412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.411 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2004;329:412-413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.412 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting systems for cardiac surgery
	Vipin Zamvar
	BMJ  2004;329:413-414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.413 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version]

	People with intellectual disabilities
	Sally-Ann Cooper, Craig Melville, Jillian Morrison
	BMJ  2004;329:414-415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to high cost drugs in Australia
	Christine Y Lu, Ken Williams, Ric Day, Lyn March, Lloyd Sansom, James Bertouch
	BMJ  2004;329:415-416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Competing interests]

Letters

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	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: Technology to collect and share information about harms already exists
	Paul L Cervi
	BMJ  2004;329:457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.457 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: GPs need to be informed about drugs prescribed to their patients elsewhere
	Pawan Randev
	BMJ  2004;329:457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.457-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: Information about benefits and harms should be accessible to patients
	Joanne M Shaw
	BMJ  2004;329:457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.457-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: New trial on albumin and saline should have been considered
	Stephen M Drage
	BMJ  2004;329:457-458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.457-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: Ethical dimension was not discussed in theme issue
	Richard E Ashcroft
	BMJ  2004;329:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.458 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: Editor's choice was sensationalist but not true
	Bob Bury
	BMJ  2004;329:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.458-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing benefits and harms in health care: Summary of webchat
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2004;329:458-459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.458-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Alcohol and other non-prescribed drugs may have impact on adverse drug reactions
	Edwina R L Williams, Ruth E Taylor
	BMJ  2004;329:459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.459 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Not all drugs that cause adverse reactions are actually prescribed by doctors
	Daniel J Saunders
	BMJ  2004;329:459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.459-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Definition of adverse drug reactions needs to include overdose
	M Barton Laws
	BMJ  2004;329:459-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.459-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Only part of the picture was reported for aspirin
	Mano Joseph
	BMJ  2004;329:459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.459-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Admissions to ear, nose, and throat departments were not mentioned
	Nicholas J Calder, Duncan MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: Authors' reply
	Munir Pirmohamed, Sally James, Shaun Meakin, Chris Green
	BMJ  2004;329:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.460-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open letter to Annette King, Minister of Health, New Zealand: Intensive medicines monitoring programme is not due to be stopped
	Don Matheson
	BMJ  2004;329:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.460-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open letter to Annette King, Minister of Health, New Zealand: Official response is misleading
	David Coulter
	BMJ  2004;329:460-461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.460-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressants and suicide: Rising prescription rate does not mean rising rate of new users
	Graham Aldred, David Healy
	BMJ  2004;329:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressants and suicide: Risk of completed suicide is not the same as risk of deliberate self harm
	Alex J Mitchell
	BMJ  2004;329:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.461-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressants and suicide: Authors' reply
	David Gunnell, Deborah Ashby
	BMJ  2004;329:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.461-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ statistical errors
	Tim J Cole, Douglas Altman, Deborah Ashby, Mike Campbell, Jonathan Deeks, Stephen Evans, Hazel Inskip, Julie Morris, Gordon Murray
	BMJ  2004;329:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government regulation is needed to prevent biased under-reporting of clinical trials
	Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2004;329:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.462-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Access to every trial dataset is crucial
	Paul Abrams
	BMJ  2004;329:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.462-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Newcastle centre gains licence for therapeutic cloning
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2004;329:417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Chairman says he declared interest
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;329:417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.417-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Row brews over Italian abortion proposals
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2004;329:418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.418-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors call for more postmortems after murders at German hospital
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2004;329:418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.418-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian patients go to court over cancer drug
	Ganapati Murdur
	BMJ  2004;329:419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poor countries need to tackle the health brain drain
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;329:419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.419-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pre-election insecurity in Afghanistan hampers health service delivery
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Quebec government wins settlement against tobacco giant
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Global Fund to give a $7m grant to Myanmar to combat tuberculosis
	Karen Hébert
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia amends its free trade deal with US to lessen effect on drug costs
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Darfur crisis intensifies
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Study warns of danger of combining spironolactone and ACE inhibitors in heart patients
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada's teenagers less likely to smoke now than in 1999
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;329:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.420-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Effectiveness of a multiple intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract symptoms in primary care: randomised controlled trial
	Ineke Welschen, Marijke M Kuyvenhoven, Arno W Hoes, Theo J M Verheij
	BMJ  2004;329:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38182.591238.EB, (Published 5 August 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Using the NO TEARS tool for medication review
	Tessa Lewis
	BMJ  2004;329:434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.434 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	Email consultations in health care: 1—scope and effectiveness
	Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2004;329:435-438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.435 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	Email consultations in health care: 2—acceptability and safe application
	Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2004;329:439-442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.439 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

Clinical review

	Radial artery access for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention
	R Andrew Archbold, Nicholas M Robinson, Richard J Schilling
	BMJ  2004;329:443-446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.443 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	ABC of burns: Burns in the developing world and burn disasters
	Rajeev B Ahuja, Sameek Bhattacharya
	BMJ  2004;329:447-449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.447 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results
	Bruce Keogh, David Spiegelhalter, Alan Bailey, James Roxburgh, Patrick Magee, Colin Hilton
	BMJ  2004;329:450-454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.450 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Development of an AIDS vaccine: perspective from the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative
	Timothy J Tucker, Gatsha Mazithulela
	BMJ  2004;329:454-456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.454 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Press: Celebrities, charities, and complaints
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.465 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: A Clone of Your Own? The Science and Ethics of Cloning
	Trefor Jenkins
	BMJ  2004;329:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.466 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development
	Ruth Freeman
	BMJ  2004;329:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.466-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Epidemiology: friend or foe?
	J A H R Claassen
	BMJ  2004;329:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Cat, fox, dog
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2004;329:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.467-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.468 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Antibacterial household products don't reduce symptoms of infectious disease
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Teaching medicine, 1816
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;329:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.424-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An actor's sense of timing
	Patrick Harrold
	BMJ  2004;329:430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.430-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson from across the Irish Sea
	Andrew Thorns
	BMJ  2004;329:442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.442 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: Abnormal liver function after an unplanned consultation
	BMJ  2004;329:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.446 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	A memorable patient: How life events change patients' perspectives of their conditions
	BMJ  2004;329:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.438 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial assessing the impact of a nurse delivered, flow monitored protocol for optimisation of circulatory status after cardiac surgery
	BMJ  2004;329:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.438-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In brief: TIA patients need assessment
	BMJ  2004;329:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.438-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I am a surgical SHO interested in a career in clinical radiology. I am interested in applying for one year deferred entry to a specialist registrar post, in order to travel. Is this feasible and if so, how do I go about it?
	Alan Denison
	BMJ  2004;329:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s72, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am interested in working in the Caribbean (especially the Bahamas). Are such jobs available, where are they advertised, and do I need American exams?
	Shahrul Izham Ibrahim
	BMJ  2004;329:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s72-a, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am planning to pursue a career in psychiatry once qualified and am particularly interested in forensic psychiatry. How competitive is it and which qualities are most useful?
	Rahul Rao
	BMJ  2004;329:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s72-b, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I will be starting medical school this year at the age of 34, and I am worried that my age will affect my future career prospects. Should I be worried?
	Emma Baker
	BMJ  2004;329:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s72-c, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s73, (Published 21 August 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to vaccinate your PC against cyber bugs<$DOWNLINK>
	Mark Lloyd, Jon Simmons, Helen McEvoy, Peter Butler, Simon Whithey
	BMJ  2004;329:s73-s75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s73-a, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate diploma in the ethics of cancer and palliative care
	Rajeena Ackroyd
	BMJ  2004;329:s75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s75, (Published 21 August 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Life as a GP registrar
	Kate Adams
	BMJ  2004;329:s76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s76, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The ABC of change: P, Q, R
	Susan E Kersley
	BMJ  2004;329:s77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s77, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Access all areas
	Deborah Cohen, Karen Hebert
	BMJ  2004;329:s78-s79, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s78, (Published 21 August 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Writing articles for Career Focus
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s80, (Published 21 August 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Writing features for Career Focus
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s80-a, (Published 21 August 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Writing reviews for Career Focus (and other general points)
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.s80-b, (Published 21 August 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Loren Mosher
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.463 [Extract] [Full text]

	Leslie MacDonald Craig
	James Beaton
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William ("Bob") McIntosh Sinclair Ironside
	G J C Smelt
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Angus Henry Luscombe
	F E Luscombe, H C Macdonald
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alan Edward Malone
	Judy Malone
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jimmy Foden Shroff
	N G Hodges
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gordon William Taylor
	Phil Simmons
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nora Kathleen Woll
	Penella J Woll
	BMJ  2004;329:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.464-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Improving mortality of coronary surgery over first four years of independent practice: retrospective examination of prospectively collected data from 15 surgeons
	Ben Bridgewater, Antony D Grayson, John Au, Ragheb Hassan, Walid C Dihmis, Chris Munsch, Paul Waterworth
	BMJ  2004;329:421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38173.577697.55, (Published 6 August 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: The learning curve
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  2004;329:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38176.444745.63, (Published 6 August 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	National questionnaire survey on what influences doctors' decisions about admission to intensive care
	Monica Escher, Thomas V Perneger, Jean-Claude Chevrolet
	BMJ  2004;329:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.425 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of reduction in heroin supply on injecting drug use: analysis of data from needle and syringe programmes
	Carolyn Day, Louisa Degenhardt, Stuart Gilmour, Wayne Hall
	BMJ  2004;329:428-429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38201.410255.55, (Published 3 August 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Fatal liver failure associated with pioglitazone
	Ed Farley-Hills, R Sivasankar, M Martin
	BMJ  2004;329:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.429 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Severe necrotising leucocytoclastic vasculitis in a patient taking bosentan
	Stefan Gasser, Max Kuhn, Rudolf Speich
	BMJ  2004;329:430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.430 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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